https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/05/24/18815205.php The world has created a system where businesses only have rights but no obligations. There is no international tribunal that can make businesses liable for human rights violations. What is perverse is that Texaco knew they polluted the land. … Continue reading →

On the 2018 Day of Labor, many were worried. No one can deny digitalization affects work. Artificial intelligence greatly changes professions and whole branches. Well-paid jobs become scarcer. Rebuilding the social state seems necessary for demographic and digitalization reasons. Capital’s … Continue reading →

The Endless War by Jacob Reimann, May 7, 2018 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/05/14/18809181.php According to the ACLU, the Corker-Kaine bill is “broader and more dangerous than the current law.” Article 1 of the US Constitution grants Congress the exclusive right to declare war. … Continue reading →

China’s 6.9% Growth: The Superiority of the Plan by Fred Schmid, 1/28/2018 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/05/08/18809039.php China has brought hundreds of millions out of poverty thanks to the opening of the economy. In 1978, 90% of the 800 million Chinese lived below the … Continue reading →

Bonhoeffer and Kierkegaard offer indispensable perspectives on history and human possibility. Bonhoeffer said the ultimate is the goal of the penultimate and that the language of proclamation enters crossway to the language of time. We are living in late-stage capitalism … Continue reading →

Systematic Lies Disinformation From Above by Mathias Brockers and Gotz Aly, April 2018 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/05/04/18808955.php “In October 1962, John F. Kennedy, a level-headed president, sat in the White House and spoke with the Soviet leader Khrushchev through a “back channel” behind … Continue reading →

Detente Policy and Media Hysteria by Antje Vollmer, April 24, 2018 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/05/01/18808878.php Antje Vollmer is a Green politician who was vice-president of the German Bundestag from 1994 to 2005. She urges a robust public debate over the new hard-line German … Continue reading →